Posted on 06/21/2009 8:08:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The first blacks brought to Jamestown were enslaved. The people of Jamestown bought their freedom and set them free. My white ancestors on my Mother’s side were indentured servants. Where’s my payback?
As an Iowan, I would like to apologize to the rest of the country for Tom Harken. (Seeing as apologies are all the rage now, might as well apologize for a current, legitimate offense.)
http://newsone.blackplanet.com/nation/senate-passes-apology-for-slavery-and-segregation/
Go to this site and read the comments. When I was there earlier it was 31 pages of foul language whining and gloating with a few voices of reason among them. Some of them think every black person should get 1.5 million dollars. Some think nothing can ever repay what they are owed. One man wanted a white woman as a slave with the right to chop off her feet without consequence and it still would not be enough.
As for the fact that they were sold by other Africans you should read the justification for that. They believe that the other tribes sold them to help them get to a better life in the New World. They said the sellers never thought the sold would be mistreated.
Harkin was my congressman and senator for years, too, as I grew up in Iowa. We called him "Tommy the Commie". The fact that he and Grassley are elected by the same people proves that most of the public can't handle the intellectual challenge of voting.
“If we’re taxed or otherwise charged one thin dime for this, I expect to see another Civil War that will make the last one look like a Junior High production of Gone With The Wind.”
Yes.
However, the time may have already come. ACORN comes to mind. So does everything else the dems and Obama have been doing by stealing our children’s and grandchildren’s future.
The embarrassing fact of history, is that the Europeans did not have to use any force to obtain these slaves. The slaves were "sold" by their black owners. There was no need for the slave raiders to risk their lives or venture into the jungles of Africa, they simply purchased the people from African chiefs and Muslim slave traders at the coast.
I think that a reparations bill should be passed by Congress. The key provision of the bill should be this: the sum of $10,000,000 will be paid to each currently living slave for the forced labor he or she did during his or her lifetime. That seems fair.
The comments on that story are downright scary.
“GIMME MINE! I’S SUFFERED” (obviously not a single person on that thread has ever been a slave or even KNEW a slave).
I think we should just finish the earlier attempt and give every black person an option for a one way trip to Liberia. That is more than we owe them, but it might make up for their self-inflicted injuries.
I believed during the campaign that, if he needed it, he would create an ugly racial incident to inflame sympathies for his candidacy. He did not need to play this card at that time, since McCain was such a feeble opponent. But Obama still holds the race card close to the vest, and will use it when and if he needs it, even though it will probably mean innocent people will die.
To extract "reparations" would be worth the deaths of innocents to him.
How many more times are we going to apologize for slavery?
I waded through 31 pages earlier this evening. What is is up to now? I don’t want to go back I already had my evening shower.
Some of them are very scary and some of them are just plain ignorant like the lady telling them how wonderful it was in Africa and how they had been misinformed about the disease and poverty.
All of my ancestors arrived well after slavery was abolished. Just sayin’.
I forgot to mention the ones who said they were oppressed and enslaved because they are still 3/5 a person since the 3/5 compromise had never been repealed.
Some of mine were Quakers and helped slaves escape.
...jes’ sayin’...
It is really bad — these people don’t even admit they crapped in their own nest but they want others to pay for the cleanup.
Still 31 pages and as you said, foul and self-serving.
I’ll buy you a cattle prod if you’ll poke obama about that.
:-)
After I learn to spell! LOL!
Well we can say pretty much for sure that Ron Paul will be one of the few votes against this. Odds are that he’ll provide the only vote.
nah...we overlook some stuff when the message is good enough.
;-)
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